9780813941929-081394192X-Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (Jeffersonian America)

Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (Jeffersonian America)

ISBN-13: 9780813941929
ISBN-10: 081394192X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Spencer W. McBride
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780813941929
ISBN-10: 081394192X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Spencer W. McBride
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (Jeffersonian America) (ISBN-13: 9780813941929 and ISBN-10: 081394192X), written by authors Spencer W. McBride, was published by University of Virginia Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Churches & Church Leadership (Christian Books & Bibles) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America (Jeffersonian America) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Churches & Church Leadership books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.69.

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In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas Jefferson’s conversion to Christianity in 1817, this book reveals the ways in which the clergy’s political activism―and early Americans’ general use of religious language and symbols in their political discourse―expanded and evolved to become an integral piece in the invention of an American national identity. Offering a fresh examination of some of the key junctures in the development of the American political system―the Revolution, the ratification debates of 1787–88, and the formation of political parties in the 1790s―McBride shows how religious arguments, sentiments, and motivations were subtly interwoven with political ones in the creation of the early American republic. Ultimately, Pulpit and Nation reveals that while religious expression was common in the political culture of the Revolutionary era, it was as much the calculated design of ambitious men seeking power as it was the natural outgrowth of a devoutly religious people.

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